Rory Kinnear
Acting • Born 1978-02-17
Biography
Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
Filmography
84 credits
Quantum of Solace
Movie • 2008
Tanner
Skyfall
Movie • 2012
Tanner
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Movie • 2021
Edward Williams
The First Men in the Moon
Movie • 2010
Bedford
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
Movie • 2012
Nick
Bank of Dave
Movie • 2023
Dave Fishwick
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
Movie • 2008
Denis Thatcher
Broken
Movie • 2012
Bob Oswald
Loving Miss Hatto
Movie • 2012
Young Barrington Coupe
Wish 143
Movie • 2009
Wishman
Cuban Fury
Movie • 2014
Gary
National Theatre Live: Othello
Movie • 2013
Iago
The Old Man and the Land
Movie • 2024
David (voice)
The Imitation Game
Movie • 2014
Detective Robert Nock
Wild Target
Movie • 2010
Gerry Bailey
Trespass Against Us
Movie • 2016
P.C Lovage
Mansfield Park
Movie • 2007
Rushworth
Spectre
Movie • 2015
Tanner
Designing Bond
Movie • 2021
Self
Man Up
Movie • 2015
Sean
Lennon Naked
Movie • 2010
Brian Epstein
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
Movie • 2025
Dave Fishwick
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Movie • 2024
Winston Churchill
The Curse of Steptoe
Movie • 2008
Alan Simpson
The Roof
Movie • 2016
Yet Another Fan
iBoy
Movie • 2017
Ellman
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Movie • 2016
Captain Macheath, aka 'Mac the Knife'
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie • 2016
Self - Performer
Judas
Movie • 2004
Andrew
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Movie • 2010
Hamlet
Muse of Fire
Movie • 2013
Self
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie • 2013
Iago
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
Henry Hunt
National Theatre Live: Young Marx
Movie • 2017
Marx
Lucan
Movie • 2013
Lord Lucan
No Time to Die
Movie • 2021
Tanner
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Movie • 2018
Macbeth
Brexit: The Uncivil War
Movie • 2019
Craig Oliver
The Interview
Movie • 2019
Interviewer
Men
Movie • 2022
Geoffrey
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bond on Location
Movie • 2012
Self / Bill Tanner
All the Devils Are Here
Movie • 2025
Harold Laing
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Ultimate Force
TV • 2002
Ashes to Ashes
TV • 2008
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Five Days
TV • 2007
Kyle Betts
Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Messiah
TV • 2001
Stewart Dean
Our Flag Means Death
TV • 2022
Captain Nigel Badminton / Chauncey Badminton
Vexed
TV • 2010
Dan Bishop
Penny Dreadful
TV • 2014
John Clare / The Creature
Lucan
TV • 2013
Lord Lucan
Southcliffe
TV • 2013
David Whitehead
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Michael Callow
Count Arthur Strong
TV • 2013
Michael Baker
Ridley Road
TV • 2021
Colin Jordan
The Casual Vacancy
TV • 2015
Barry Fairbrother
Catherine the Great
TV • 2019
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Beautiful People
TV • 2008
Ross
Comedy Showcase
TV • 2007
Rob Black
Cranford
TV • 2007
Septimus Hanbury
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
James Mitcham
Toxic Town
TV • 2025
Des Collins
Guerrilla
TV • 2017
Pence
Quacks
TV • 2017
Robert Lessing
The Second Coming
TV • 2003
Father Dillane
Women in Love
TV • 2011
Rupert Birkin
The Diplomat
TV • 2023
Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge
The Thick of It
TV • 2005
Ed
Watership Down
TV • 2018
Cowslip (voice)
Years and Years
TV • 2019
Stephen Lyons
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
TV • 2020
Dr. Peter Craft
The Hollow Crown
TV • 2012
Bollingbroke
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Prince Rico / Gus
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV • 2022
Tom Bombadil
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
TV • 2012
Reverend Septimus Crisparkle
Say Nothing
TV • 2024
Frank Kitson
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Edward Williams
Amadeus
TV • 2025
Emperor Joseph
Lord of the Flies
TV • 2026
Ralph's Father (uncredited)
Honey
TV
Graham Anderson